First published at 23:46 UTC on May 3rd, 2024.
What do you want to bet the 6oz of ashes he got were no even her?
Jim Stauffer donated his mother's body for Scientific Research
In 2013, Doris Stauffer, 73, died in hospice care following a several year battle with Alzheimer’s, despite doctors…
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What do you want to bet the 6oz of ashes he got were no even her?
Jim Stauffer donated his mother's body for Scientific Research
In 2013, Doris Stauffer, 73, died in hospice care following a several year battle with Alzheimer’s, despite doctors saying she didn’t carry the gene for the disease. Medical officials feared the condition may have mutated and hoped to study her brain after her death to further investigate.
Finally, he settled on the Biological Resource Center (BRC) in Maricopa County following a recommendation from a nurse, under the agreement that the company - led by Stephen Gore - would send her brain to a neurological research group. Jim Stauffer completed a form granting permission for medical research on his mother's body. Additionally, he indicated his preference by selecting an option that excluded military, traffic safety, and other non-medical experiments.
Several days later he received a wooden box that contained the 'majority' of his mother’s ashes, however no information was provided about how Doris’ body was used or where the rest of her remains were.
(They were here, there, over there, over there, up there etc.)
According to Reuters, the BRC workers detached one of Doris Stauffer's hands for cremation. After sending those ashes back to her son, the company sold and shipped the rest of Stauffer's body – including her brain - to a taxpayer-funded research ‘blast testing’ project for the U.S. Army. Her brain was never utilized for Alzheimer's research. Instead, Stauffer's body became involved in an Army experiment aimed at assessing damage inflicted by roadside bombs. Doris’ cadaver was then strapped into a chair on ‘some sort of apparatus’ and an explosive device was detonated beneath her. The idea of the experiment was to ‘get an idea of what the human body goes through when a vehicle is hit by an IED,’
Be careful who you donate mom or grandma too is how the story goes right there.
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